Date and time: Thursday 11th May, from 11.00 to 13.00
Place: TAU Linna K103
Dr. Unni Karunakara was International President of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from 2010-2013. He has been a humanitarian worker and a public health professional for more than two decades, with extensive experience in the delivery of health care to populations affected by conflict, disasters, epidemics, and neglect in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. He was Medical Director of the MSF’s Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines (2005-2007) and co-founded VIVO, an organisation that works toward overcoming and preventing traumatic stress and its consequences. Besides, he is a Senior Fellow of the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale Law School and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. He has held various academic and research fellowships at universities in China, Germany, South Korea, Uganda, United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe. Karunakara served as well as the Deputy Director of Health of the Earth Institute, Millennium Villages Project (2008-2010), and was Assistant Clinical Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health (2008-2017), both at Columbia University. Lastly, Karunakara is a Visiting Professor of Public Health at Manipal University.